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.G. N. FRENCH. Vehicle-Spring.

No. 225,925 Paiented Mar. 30, 1880 MPHERS. PHOTQ-LITHOGRAPHER. WASRINGYON. Dr I v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE N. FRENCH, OF GRAFTON, VERMONT.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,925, dated March 30, 1880.

' Application filed February 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. FRENCH, of Grafton, of the county of Windham and State of Vermont, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Wheel-Carriages; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end View, and Fig. 3 an under-side view, of a carriage-body and perch-frame, and the supportin g-springs of such body, arranged and applied in accordance with my invention, in the carrying out of which the body is sustained by means of side springs connected with the perchframe and by boW-sprin gs connected both to the body and directly to the side springs.

My improvement enables me to dispense with side bars, as heretofore used with bowsprings and cross-springs for sustaining the.

body of the vehicle.

In the drawings, A denotes the carriagebody, and Bthe perch-frame, the latter being composed of the rocker-bar a, the rear axle, b, and a series of three or other suitable number of bars, 0 c 0, connecting the two and arranged therewith in manner as represented.

Two long side springs, C G,formed as shown, are joined at their ends by links or couplings D with the rocker-bar and rear axle, such springs being disposed below the body A, and

connected with it by means of two other bowed springs, E E, formed and arranged as represented. These latter springs, at or near their Iniddles, are fastened to the body, while at or near their ends they rest directly upon the side springs, and are to be secured thereto by bolts and nuts or other proper couplings.

The above-described arrangement and combination of springs applied to the body and perch-frame affords to the body an excellent elastic or yielding support without the necessity of using side bars, as represented in the United States Patent No. 157,425, wherein semicircular or semi-oblong springs having to each a curved and raised central portion are shown as combined with longitudinal side bars for supporting the body of the vehicle, and are sustained by means of transverse semielliptic or plate springs applied to the perchframe and the side bars.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention is- The combination and arrangement, substantially as described, of the side springs, (l C, and the bow-springs E E with each other and the body and perch-frame of a wheel-carriage.

GEORGE N. FRENCH.

Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, W. W. LUNT. 

